The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Stauber
The statement, 'Availability of fire resources can be a serious constraint to conducting prescribed natural fire activities,' illustrates some misunderstanding of prescribed fire programs. The availability of fire suppression resources should not be a 'driving force' in our…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Poncin
Decision making for managers in a fire situation can be very complicated. The information brought to the decision maker must be well though out and accurate. Before meaningful strategy can be formulated, realistic agreed-upon objectives for the incident are needed. With…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hurd
Resource management plans and objectives may be sound ecologically and within agency mandates for management, but impossible to expedite because of political considerations and obstacles. It is imperative that these be recognized in the planning processes and confronted…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Botti, Nichols
Prescribed natural fire programs in the National Park Service have changed dramatically following the 1988 Yellowstone fires. The area burned per year has declined by 94 percent even though the area within prescribed natural fire zones has increased. The program has been…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jimenez, Conover
In human-modified environments, high predation rates on ground-nesting birds and their eggs can be a serious problem. We reviewed the literature to determine the effectiveness of ecological aproaches to improve recruitment of ground-nesting birds. Ecological approaches reduce…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Quah, Johnston
The 'seasonal haze' problem is one which afflicts large parts of Southeast Asia in years of drought. The major cause is forest, bush and field fires in the states of Kalimantan and Sumatra in Indonesia, and to a lesser extent in Sabah, Sarawak, and other parts of Malaysia.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Timoney, Lee
Economic growth is frequently touted as a cure for environmental ills, particularly for those in Third World countries. Here we examine that paradigm in a case study of Alberta, Canada, a wealthy, resource-rich province within a wealthy nation. Through provincial-scale datasets…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Truesdale
'The rising cost of fire suppression activities prompted the Regional Fire Directors, under the leadership of the Director of Fire and Aviation Management, to review the causes of fire suppression costs and recommend appropriate actions. The 1994 fire season costs were the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bell, Cleaves, Croft, Husari, Schuster, Truesdale
[unpublished report] From the text...'Because of the soaring expenditures (nearly $1 billion in FY 1994) for fire management, the Fire Economics Assessment Team was formed in January of 1995 by USDA Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management, and chartered with the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text and table of contents: .'This report addresses five major topic areas: 1) role of wildland fire in resource management, 2) use of wildland fire, 3) preparedness and suppression, 4) wildland/urban interface protection, and 5) coordinated program management; presents…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Core, Peterson
From the Introduction...'There are several reasons why wildland fire managers may want to conduct an ambient air quality-monitoring program. These include: • smoke management program evaluation purposes, • to fulfill a public information need, • to verify assumptions used in…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schmoldt, Peterson
Public land managers must treat multiple values coincidentally in time and space, which requires the participation of multiple resource specialists and consideration of diverse clientele interests in the decision process. This implies decision making that includes multiple…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hesseln
Changes in fire-dependent ecosystems, fuel accumulations, and ever-increasing population in the wildland-urban interface have increased fire management complexity and expenditures. To manage wildland fire more efficently, this article suggests developing a national fire…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Englin, Loomis, González-Cabán
This analysis examines the dynamic path of recreational values following a forest fire in three different states in the intermountain western United States. The travel cost demand analysis found that annual recreation values after a fire follow a highly nonlinear intertemporal…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hann, Hemstrom, Haynes, Clifford, Gravenmier
To understand benefits of integrating management at landscape scales, we estimated cost and projected integrated outcomes for three alternatives for public land management in the interior Columbia River basin over 100 years. Effectiveness was measured in terms of costs and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Nieuwstadt, Sheil, Kartawinata
In 1997-1998 over 50,000 km2 of East Kalimantan burned, affecting some 23,000 km2 of natural forest concessions. This is nearly one-quarter (24%) of the area of all natural forest concessions in the province (Hoffmann et al. 1999). The biomass of the trees living at the time of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Snow
From the text... 'The U.S. Forest Service, surveying the wake of the fire, began making plans to re-seed the scorched areas, and to use a relatively new technique known as hydromulching as the best way to rehabilitate problem locations such as steep slopes and other erosion-…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ingalsbee
From the text ... 'In May 2000, the Forest Service released a proposal to protect roadless areas on the national forests and grasslands from degradation through future roadbuilding. The Roadless Area Conservation Draft Environmental Impact Statement, coupled with an unusually…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Executive Summary: On August 8, 2000, President Clinton asked Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to prepare a report that recommends how best to respond to this year*s severe fires, reduce the impacts of these wildland fires on rural…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dombeck
From the text ... 'We can postpone the inevitible blazes, but-as the 2000 fire season showed-not indefinitely...' ... 'The relative severity of the 2000 fire season mobilized public opinion behind a large-scale program to reduce the fire hazard in our western forests. On…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jolley
From the text ... 'Reducing heavy fuel buildups in the Western United States will require the use of every available tool, including biomass removal.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
From the text ... 'At the beginning of the 20th century, equipment development for wildland firefighting was an informal, backyard affair. Farmers, ranchers, and loggers developed equipment for their specific needs, often sharing their best ideas with neighbors. After 1905, when…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
From the text ... 'Every year, hundreds of aircraft and tens of thousands of firefighters are needed to suppress wildland fires in the United States, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... 'Since the 1980's, there has been a disturbing rise in both total suppression costs and the cost per acre burned.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Putnam
From the text, 'The central theme discussed is the use of the psychological technique of mindfulness to promote clear thinking under stressful, risky conditions. Clear thinking enhances safety by improving all our actions: self-awareness, situational awareness, risk analysis,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS